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HOSPORD BUSTLE.

No. 366,211 Patented July I2, 1887.

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JOHN HOSFORD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUSTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,217, dated July 12, 1887. Application filed December 30, 1886. Serial No. 223,003. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN HOsFoRD, a citizen ofthe United States, anda resident of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvementsin Bustles, of which the following, taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in bustles, and particularly to improvements in the stays or springs by which the bows are united, and it is carried out as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a perspective View of a bustle provided with4 my improved stays or springs. Fig. 2 represents a vertical section over one of the stays or springs X, shown in Fig. l, and Fig. 3 represents in section a modification of the improved stays or springs.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

In Fig. l is represented a bustle, consisting of a waistband, A, having side pieces, A A', to which the ends of the spring-bows B, C, D, and E are riveted 'or .otherwise secured, as usual. To said side pieces, A A', is also secured, as usual, the spring-bow F, that is adapted to rest on the back of the wearer when the bustle is in use.

a a are spring-stays uniting the waistband A and bow F. b l) are similar stays uniting the springbowsB and F,'and c c are similar stays uniting the spring-bows C and F, as is usual in bustles 0f this kind.

X X are bent or duplexsprings or stays uniting the springbow D to the bows E and F, as shown in the drawings. Such bent or duplex springs X are very liable to get broken at the sharp angle, where they are united to the bow D, when thelegs of such springs X are brought together, as may be caused by a lateral pressure on thebustle while the wearer is leaning against any unyielding object, or when reclining or lying down, causing derangement and destruction of the bustle. To prevent this, and to enable the duplex stays or springs X X to be expanded or contracted wit-hout causingbreakage at or near the bend or angle, I bend it at such place in the form of a loop or eye, X", as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

In Fig. 2 the eye X is arranged centrally above the bow D, and in Fig. 3 such eye is shown as arranged on one side of said bow D. Either arrangement will answer the desired object.

d d are rivets, solid or tubular, by means of which the bow D is secured to one of the legs of the springs X near the eye X', as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

Having thus fully described the nature, con struction, and operation of my invention, I wish to secure by Letters Patent, and claim- A bustle. comprising the horizontal spring bows B, O, D, and E, the back-rest bow F,l

stays Z) c, connecti ng the upper bows, B O, with the back-rest bow, and the two springs X, riveted at their ends, respectively, tothe backrest bow and the lower horizontal bow, E, and having intermediate their ends the springloops X', elevated above the top horizontal edge of the bow D, the latter passing between the two members of each spring X and riveted thereto below the springloops, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereofI havesigned my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 24th day of December, A. D. 1886.

JOHN I-IOSFORD. lVitnesses:

ALBAN Aivnninv,

HENRY GHADBOURN. 

